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C HAPTER 5 A Rough Beginning in Jamestown
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A PLANT THAT FARMERS GROW TO SELL AT A MARKET
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C ASH CROP
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T O SHIP GOODS FROM ONE COUNTRY OR DISTRICT TO ANOTHER AREA OF THE WORLD
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EXPORT
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A PERSON BOUND BY A CONTRACT TO WORK WITHOUT PAY FOR A PERIOD OF TIME
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I NDENTURED SERVANT $
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D AUGHTER OF C HIEF P OWHATAN WHO BEFRIENDED J AMESTOWN SETTLERS AND HELPED KEEP PEACE. S HE MARRIED J OHN R OLFE, A PLANTER, AND VISITED E NGLAND WITH HIM.
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P OCAHONTAS
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G OVERNOR OF V IRGINIA IN 1610. H IS SHIPS RESCUED THE J AMESTOWN SETTLERS WHO SURVIVED THE STARVING TIME.
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L ORD D E L A W ARR
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A FORT AND SETTLEMENT ON THE UPPER J AMES R IVER, BUILT BY THE J AMESTOWN C OLONY IN 1611.
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F ORT H ENRICO
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P LANTER WHO BEGAN GROWING TOBACCO AS A CASH CROP
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J OHN R OLFE
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T HE FIRST GROUP OF LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES IN V IRGINIA, ESTABLISHED IN 1619
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H OUSE OF BURGESSES The House of Burgesses, the first legislative assembly in the American colonies, held its first meeting in the choir at Jamestown Church in the summer of 1619. Its first order of business: setting a minimum price for the sale of tobacco.
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T HE COLONIAL LEGISLATURE OF V IRGINIA, ESTABLISHED IN 1619
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G ENERAL A SSEMBLY Wood engraving of the General Assembly, held in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia, shows representatives, or "burgesses," meeting with the governor and his council. The assembly formed the New World's first colonial legislature.
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